Officials of Market Bosworth RFC are tight lipped over a move to unseat the sport’s national acting chief executive.

Minnows in the sport, the Cadeby Lane club is prompting a resolution seeking the head of Martyn Thomas in a letter to past and present Rugby Football Union personnel and clubs. The move, revealed in a report in The Times last Wednesday, is seeking the support of 100 clubs to call a special general meeting at which their resolution would be put and voted on.

However Bosworth chairman Paul Bromby, when contacted by The Hinckley Times, said it was a committee decision and referred us to secretary Mike McKay for a statement and when we rang him, he refused to speak to a reporter and put the phone down.

The Bosworth resolution reads: “The game has lost confidence in Martyn Thomas and resolves that he be required to resign from all RFU executive and non-executive roles with immediate effect.

“The resolution requires only a simple majority of those voting in person or by proxy to be passed. We believe that the resolution will be passed and that once this has occurred the other non-executive directors will reconsider their positions and resign.”

In the opening paragraph of the letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Times and published in part, the club said: “Like many of you, we have been following the events at Twickenham with growing disgust. We have read the Blackett Review and the failure of Martyn Thomas and the board to accept responsibility and resign. We have been disappointed by the lack of action by the council and believe that our representatives on the board of directors should be personally held to account.

“It is now clear that no action will be taken by the board unless the clubs act. If we do not act then those responsible for the mess that the union is in (and the associated costs which are estimated at well over £2m) will continue in office. The game cannot allow this to happen.”

Thomas took over in June after the resignation of John Steele who had tried to overhaul the elite rugby department. The report by Judge Jeff Blackett, the union’s judicial officer, into the handling of this and the bungled appointment of a head of elite rugby blamed Thomas.